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## Abstract To improve upon their current knowledge, learners must be able to generate informative data and accurately evaluate this evidence. However, there is substantial disagreement regarding self‐directed learners' competence in these behaviors. Researchers in cognitive development have suggested that learners are “intuitive scientists,” generating informative actions and rationally coordinating their current observations and prior beliefs from an early age. Conversely, researchers in scientific reasoning report that learners struggle with experimentation and often fail to reach appropriate conclusions from evidence, even as adults. According to the prevailing narrative, these inconsistent findings must be “bridged” to explain the gap between learners' successes and failures. Here, we advocate for an alternative approach. First, we review the research on scientific reasoning and find that there may be less evidence for learners' failures than is typically assumed. Second, we offer a novel interpretation that aims to account for both literatures: we suggest that self‐directed learners may be best understood as competent causal reasoners. That is, many seemingly uninformative or
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It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Neuroscience.
- Author
- Elizabeth Lapidow; Caren M. Walker
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Neuroscience (Social Sciences)